Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
2: Circe
BOOK X
Translated by Ian Fletcher
Read by Patrick Garland
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite
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Piero Guarino (piano)
The works by Skalkottas are being heard for the first time outside Greece.
WILLIAM WALSH , Professor of Education in the University of Leeds, reviews The Long Revolution by Raymond Williams.
' Sometimes the tetchy reader ... will think of Mr. Williams' account as the tall story of the long revolution.'
PATRICIA CLARK (soprano)
GRAYSTON BURGESS. ALFRED DELLER and JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor)
JOHN CAMERON (bass)
LONDON CHAMBER SINGERS and ORCHESTRA
Leader. Lionel Bentley
Conductor. ANTHONY BERNARD
Continuo:
Charles Spinks (harpsichord) and John Shinebourne (cello)
by BERTOLT BRECHT
English version by CHARLOTTE and A. L. LLOYD
Songs composed by HANS-DIETER HOSALLA
Incidental music composed by HUMPHREY SEARLE with Siobhan McKenna as Joan Dark
Frank Pettingell
Beatrix Lehmann , Malcolm Hayes
In the Chicago of the late twenties a girl of the Black Straw Hats organisation, pained by the poverty and suffering of the workers who are buffeted by the inexplicable financial ups-and-downs of the meat markets, decides to' search out the mainsprings of prosperity and poverty.
CAST
Speaker, Catherine Dolan ; Commentator, Martin Starkie
Joan Dark , Siobhan McKenna : Paulus Snyder , Martha, and A girl (the Black Straw Hats). Charles Leno , Catherine Dolan , and Penelope Lee: Mulberry, a landlord, Derek Birch
Pierpont Mauler , meat king, Frank Pettingell ; Sullivan Slift ,his broker, Malcolm Hayes : Cridle, Graham, Meyers, and Lennox (meat packers), Geoffrey Wincott , Leslie Perrins , Rolf Lefebvre. and David Bird
Mri. Luckerniddle, a worker's wife, Beatrix Lehmann ; Gloomb, Michael Turner ; A waiter, Nigel Anthony ; Mrs. Swingurn Eithne Dunne; An apprentice, Jon Rollason ; A workers' leader, Gabriel Woolf
A detective, John Bennett
Songs by the cast with a section, of the Ambrosian. Singers
Music conducted by Humphrey Searle
The play edited for radio and produced by H. B. FORTUIN
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DURING THE INTERVAL (9.10-9.20 app.) A record of movements from
Dance Suite (Edward Kiinneke ) played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer
Quintet for wind and piano played by the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble Gareth Morris (flute)
Stephen Waters (clarinet' Cecil James (bassoon) Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Patrick Piggott (piano)
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